I am struggling with parsing a csv file. My csv file unfortunately has some double quotes and commas in the column data. Below is some sample data. Columns 3, 4 and 5 contain names in the format (last, first middle). To add to the complexity one or more of the name columns might be empty, as in the second, third and fourth sample lines.

Examples

column1,column2,column3,column4,column5,column6,column7

data,data,"lname, fname mi","lname, fname mi","lname fname mi",data,data

data,data,"lname, fname mi","lname, fname mi",,data,data

data,data,"lname, fname mi",,,data,data

data,data,,,,data,data

In reply to Parsing CSV by kumoparris

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